Mark Hurd (1957–2019) American businessman, philanthropist and CEO of Oracle
Interview with Baylor Business Review: "Q & A with Mark Hurd" https://bbr.baylor.edu/mark-hurd-fa06/ (Fall 2006)
Myron Tribus quoted in: Henry R. Neave, "Deming'88* Part 2: The 14 Points revisited (Points 1–7)." Total Quality Management 1.2 (1990): 169-182.
Mark Hurd (1957–2019) American businessman, philanthropist and CEO of Oracle
Interview with Baylor Business Review: "Q & A with Mark Hurd" https://bbr.baylor.edu/mark-hurd-fa06/ (Fall 2006)
“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
Sam Harris book Free Will (book)
Free Will
Variant: You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Variant: Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Eric Shinseki (1942) retired United States Army four-star general, seventh United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Quoted in "Forever Young: Ten Gifts of Faith for the Graduate" - Page 156 - by Pat Williams, Karen Kingsbury - Religion - 2005
“What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
“You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.”
Eric Mazur (1954) Dutch physicist
explaining his techniques of active learning, in From Questions to Concepts: Interactive Teaching in Physics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYrKPoVFwg, Harvard BokCenter, 2008.
“You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.”
Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)
Context: You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.